Comments on: Will someone please kill Soundtrack Pro?

By: timeoutofmind

timeoutofmind — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:21:17 +0000

if you need a hammer to beat stp to a pulp, i’m on my way to home depot.

what a hunk of crap this is ….. i just lost four hours of work, because it decided to crash towards the end of an hour long audio file … after about 200 edits.

all gone. i’m getting ready to restart, but i’m delirious with rage.

By: Swanic

Swanic — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 04:13:15 +0000

Soundtrack Pro 1 and 2.0 both SUCK. The program is all marketing hype. I have worked with simple FREE programs that come from Sony turntables that have more functionality than this program. Talk about the learning curve too. It takes months to use the program even on a basic level. You would think a function like TEMPO would be a given for such a “Pro”gram. Forget it, TEMPO doesn’t exist. And Don’t tell me look at the Master track. We “pro”s have already tried it. I even tried converting my files to Core CAF format and thought I was in the bag. Wrong! You use Apple Loops and get your tempo right wear you want it, and think great, I’m all set to go. Drop the file into STP and I’ve heard kids shows with better chipmunks than the crap that comes out of STP. I have both FCS and STP and am begging for a better solution. Half the work I thought I could do on the MBP went back to a PC.

Of yes, we all love the Humm and “Click Pop” crap. Spend fifteen minutes “removing” the clicks” on a 5 minute audio file. For pete’s sake, the MBP is an Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHZ with 2GB ram. How much more power does it need to “read” a wave file. Even my 386 DX 33 with a Roland ISA sound card had better response.

Anyone and I mean anyone who says they use STP and love it, are using free copies from an academic institution.

From a frustrated user waiting like everyone else to be sold on the next miracle in future technology, I throw my hands up in vain.

By: Stu Mannion

Stu Mannion — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:14:03 +0000

You are so right. Kill STP and put better effects and much more realtime power into the audio editing in FCP! I really wanted to use STP on a short film but it was terrible in so many ways.

Even Logic needs a bunch of interface improvements. Is there anything on the Mac as easy and powerful for audio editing as Vegas?

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By: zeke

zeke — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:20:43 +0000

I use soundtrack pro on an almost daily basis. This week alone with probably 20 hours editing audio/video files. I heavily use the normalize, repair actions, and dynamic/eq plugins. I love this program, and it rarely crashes on me!! I was shocked to hear it’s crashing so much for you, and to hear of its sluggish performance… maybe it’s time for you to reinstall.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:38:49 +0000

I use STP every weekend to record a podcast, and mos of the time it works fine, although I have given up on a few things. 1) trying to apply the noise removal on files longer than 15 minutes. 2) Multitrack recording. I love the idea, the amount of little bugs when trying to bring the multichannel files back to stereo is unbearable.

On the whole, though, it works better than garageband, and it does do the job for small projects I finish myself.

But It’s like Color, great potential, amazing when it works but requires a huge learning curve, and is riddled with bugs.

By: dave

dave — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:37:13 +0000

Apple should implement all STP PLUGIN SUPPORT, Visual metering, Editing in FCP.
I like STP pretty good. It’s not bad. I notice very often that ‘video people’ are allergic to audio applications :P

By: Jay Ryan

Jay Ryan — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:54:08 +0000

I hate most bundled audio programs for video guys. My background for the most part was professional audio production and sound design. These programs stink. While Premier CS3 is a stellar video program, Soundbooth stinks. Like FCP, a stellar video program, STP stinks as well. I use separate, and much more user friend applications for my audio work. When coming from a pro audio background, using what comes bundled with our video apps leaves no question as to why a lot of audio even on “professional” work sounds like garbage.

By: Ben De Rydt

Ben De Rydt — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 10:33:27 +0000

Truth to be told, Final Cut Pro is pretty stable and can deal with audio quite fine. You can even use a control surface for basic audio levels and pans. It’s just that Soundtrack Pro promises so much more but can’t deliver in the end. The reason I wrote this article is that I spend one and half day fighting Soundtrack Pro and had to go back to Final Cut Pro in the end, but I sure missed the plugins.

By: canelson

canelson — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:20:48 +0000

I’m sorry for reading this post with all this problems, but it’s useful because I think its good to let people know about applications pros and cons.
Apple has an excellent marketing team and that’s why so many people is moving to Final Cut Studio. I read on one of the latest POST Magazine: Final Cut Studio saves money when you buy it, Avid saves TIME when you are working, and time is money. (Avid hast their own problems too, like the old-school title tool or the way keyframes work on effects).